News & reports
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VDSA newsletter December 2022
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Lunch Project Group 2022 ReportÂ
This year the VDSA Lunch Project Group, nicknamed The Foodies, celebrates its 10th birthday. The team includes approximately twenty people, and while there are members who had to leave because of life circumstances, the core of the group has remained untouched in time. Equally untouched has remained their generosity, enthusiasm, and steady collaboration in providing…
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Garden program 2022 report
By Anne Rutherford 2022 has been a year of change and refocus for the orto team. In the first half of the year we supplied weekly veggies to a new charity, Our Big Kitchen, that provides over 120,000 meals a people in need of food support, including asylum seekers, Indigenous people and the homeless. Over…
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Refugee program 2022 report
By Charity Haynes Visiting refugees in their homes has continued in 2021-2022 but we no longer visit the Villawood Detention Centre. Families have been helped in many ways, including rent assistance, paying for doctors bills & electricity accounts. Highlights of visits include delicious lunches, seeing the progress of the children, several starting school for the…
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Refugee Soccer Match
On October 16 at the Wanderers Football Park in Sydney a friendly soccer match between newly arrived young Afghani refugees and an Italian Australian soccer team was played.VDSA sponsored the game together with the Massoud Foundation, Amnesty International, Filef, Comites, NSW Government and Grandmothers for Refugees.It is the second match VDSA has sponsored to provide…
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Veggie Garden Report 2021 report
Vittoria Pasquini on behalf of the Coordinator Marisa KatisOur beautiful organic vegetable garden blossomed in 2021 among many difficulties (Covid lockdown the main one), many thanks to Ann Game’s continuous, generous work and expertise, to Marisa Katis for general coordination, to Jill Romuld for account keeping and to our volunteers working in the garden individually…
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Lunch Group 2021 report
By Mariella Totaro-Genevois In 2022 the VDSA Lunch Project Group for the ASC in Newtown will celebrate its 10th birthday, and notwithstanding the disruption and distress provoked by COVID-19, as I will illustrate later, there is definitely cause for being proud of its work and achievements during very difficult times.So far, the VDSA Lunch Group…
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Refugees & Asylum Seekers Program 2021 report
Visiting refugees has continued this past year despite the Omicron variant of Covid being present. The first event in 2021 was a picnic for a group living in the Auburn area, which was dominated by the youngest taking his first steps! A feature of our visits is seeing the progress of the children and the…
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Garden report 2021
During the pandemic volunteers were encouraged to do planting and routine maintenance work in pairsor small groups.At the beginning of the year we redesigned the garden to allow for plant rotation and including bee –attracting plants.Initially, despite the pandemic, we were able to deliver our vegetables weekly to the RedfernCommunity Centre and Jarjum College when…
